Journal of Human Resources articles from September 1994

Journal of Human Resources archives from September 1994

Like father, like son; like mother, like daughter: parental resources and child height.
September 22, 1994... Evenson, Robert E., Barry M. Popkin, and Elizabeth K. Quizon. 1980. "Nutrition, Work and Demographic Behavior in Rural Philippine Households." In Rural Household Studies in Asia, ed. H. Binswanger et at. Singapore: Singapore University Press....

Family productivity, labor supply, and welfare in a low income country. (includes appendix)
September 22, 1994... Males Aged 12-17 K-S statistic 0.02 0.05 0.02 P level 0.87 0.03 0.78 Females Aged 12-17 K-S statistic 0.01 0.04 0.02 P level 0.99 0.12 0.74 I....

Population age structure, intergenerational transfer, and wealth: a new approach, with applications to the United States. (includes appendices)
September 22, 1994... Individuals and Households There is no such thing as a life cycle budget constraint for a household, because the adult membership of households changes over time. For this reason, we must interpret household accounts in terms of individual...

Family endowments and the achievement of young children with special reference to the underclass. (includes appendix)
September 22, 1994... Appendix First Stage Estimation Table A1 displays the probit results which are used to form the Mills Ratio included to correct for potential sample selection bias in our estimates of the PPVT model. Age, which controls for exposure to...

Inequality among young adult siblings, public assistance programs, and intergenerational living arrangements. (includes appendix)
September 22, 1994... I. Introduction In recent years a number of empirical studies of the intrahousehold distribution of resources have appeared motivated in part by the recognition that family behavior may play an important role in the distribution of income...

Intergenerational educational mobility: effects of family and state in Malaysia.
September 22, 1994... per year through two post-secondary Standards until all secondary schools were converted to Malay in 1982 (DeTray 1984). In the late 1980s, the Malaysian government extended this policy to conversion of government elementary schools to the...

Education, marriage, and first conception in Malaysia. (includes appendices)
September 22, 1994... each ethnic group based on the Post Enumeration Survey of the 1970 Malaysian Census. 19. This data, however, only contains information on residences that were represented in the survey year, 1988. Further, the migration history only provides...

Inheritance and labor supply.
September 22, 1994... I. Introduction Most empirical research on the economics of intrafamily transfers has concentrated on explanations of donors' behavior, and, in particular, their motivation to transfer.(1) The recipients' behavioral response to these...

Family ties and labor markets in the United States and Brazil.
September 22, 1994... I. Introduction Using comparable household survey data from Brazil and the United States, we use a consistent methodology to estimate the connections between generations and between spouses in schooling and earnings. We look at both...

Married women's allocation of time to employment and care of elderly parents.
September 22, 1994... I. Introduction It has been estimated that there are about 14 million working-age Americans with a disabled parent or spouse aged 65 or older (Stone and Kemper 1990). This constitutes a substantial population of individuals potentially...